They’re kidding right?
Alachua School Board Chair Sarah Rockwell made an imprudent comment about Hulk Hogan on social media after his death. For which she has repeatedly apologized.
Not good enough, AC Repubs say. She must resign. And immediately.
Such incivility needs to be excised from public life if we are going to keep calling ourselves a civil society.
Of course, hardly a day passes that the GOP’s No. 1 standard bearer doesn’t publicly insult, malign and threaten somebody or other – to the universal delight of his cultists and minions.
Personally, I think Rockwell should resign for her unforgivable breach of civility.
Five minutes after God’s gift to the GOP quits for the same reason.
But that’s just me.
Injury to insult
Oh yeah, and now Floriduh’s new education commissioner wants to take away Rockwell’s teaching certificate and possibly withhold school board salaries.
For violating someone’s First Amendment rights.
At a raucous school board meeting in which Rockwell was roundly condemned for exercising her First Amendment rights.
A meeting in which no one’s First Amendment’s rights were actually violated.
Cancel culture is strong in The Great DeSanitizer’s Free State of Floriduh.
Nothing to smell here folks
After three City of Alachua planners resigned, citing undue pressure from a former and sitting city manager to speed up development approvals, voters finally had enough. They threw out the longtime mayor and an incumbent commissioner and replaced them with candidates who promised to get to the bottom of the stench at City Hall.
Oh never mind.
Turns out that the new mayor and the new commissioner are still in the minority on Alachua’s otherwise staunchly pro-growth commission. And naturally, the majority has turned thumbs down on a proposed investigation into what in the hell has been going on in City Hall.
“We promised the citizens we would do this and now we’re looking like we’re liars up here,” new Mayor Walter Welch said after the commission majority nixed an investigation.
Clearly, Alachua voters have more housecleaning to do.
The King can do no wrong
Having lost a lawsuit requiring UF to return student fees for services that were not provided during the COVID lockdown, the university wants the Florida Supreme Court to rehear the case on the basis of Sovereign Immunity,
Sovereign Immunity basically meaning that the State is King and the King can do no wrong.
The problem with Sovereign Immunity is that it holds governments harmless for a multitude of sins.
Take streets and roads for instance. States, counties and cities have for decades been designing roads with the prime objective of allowing motorists to drive as quickly and efficiently as possible.
And what of the tens of thousands of Americans who are every year killed and maimed because of “car first” transportation decisions?
Sovereign Immunity pal. Sorry about that.
Wouldn’t it be great if the courts decided that government can’t keep killing pedestrians, cyclists and other living things with impunity? Don’t hold your breath.
Blood yes, rainbows no
Cities from GNV to Tallahassee to St. Petersburg are increasingly employing ‘street art,’ – basically murals on public roads and streets – for a dual purpose: As a source of community beautification and pride, and because street art tends to have a calming effect that slows down drivers.
But it turns out that street art – like the rainbow murals in downtown GNV – are really subversive messages of degeneracy that MUST GO!
From the Tallahassee Democrat: “Following a directive from the Trump administration, the Florida Department of Transportation sent out a memo June 30 informing local governments of the expectation for its streets, causing several cities — Jacksonville, Boynton Beach and West Palm Beach to name a few — to already begin removing crosswalks specifically with painted rainbows, often used as a symbol of the LGBTQ+ community…”
FDOT Secretary Jared Perdue has proclaimed on X that cities must to keep their roadways “free and clear of political ideologies” or lose funding.
Is there anything more obscene, in a country that kills more than 40,000 people a year in traffic, than a proclamation that says: “Oh, but we can’t put rainbows where only asphalt and blood belongs.”
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